Difference between community and Society
Difference between community and Society
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fundamental difference between community and the society is the difference
between the part and whole. As such it is rather difficult to make clear
distinction between them. To arrive at a distinction between two things, we
have first to place them apart from each other, but to take away community from
the whole, from the society, is to destroy the completeness of society. The only
other way of doing this, that is making distinction between community and
society is to compare them in reference to men. The distinguishing features
between society and community may be summed up in the following way:
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COMMUNITY
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SOCIETY
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1.
Population: It is one of the most
essential and indispensable characteristics of a community irrespective of
the consideration whether people have or do not have conscious relations.
2.
Nature: A community by nature is
discrete as compared with society.
3.
Area: For a community area or
locality is very essential and that perhaps is the reason that the community
has a definite shape.
4.
Heterogeneity: A community has
comparatively narrow scope of
community sentiments and as such it cannot have wide heterogeneity.
5.
Social Relationship: It consists
of group of individuals who may not
have close social relationship.
6.
Scope: The scope of community is
narrow than that of society because community came much later than the
society. Though the primitive people might not have understood the importance
of community but they realised that of the society and lived in it. In a
society there can be many communities.
7.
Objectivity: In a community one
finds that common objectives are less extensive and loosely coordinated.
8.
Development of Individuality: For
a developed community
it is essential that the individuals should obey the commands of community with the result · that an individual
cannot have fullest expression of his
personal self.
9.
Likeness and Difference: In a
community every effort is made to avoid differences or conflicts and
to bring likeness as nearly as possible because cooperation and conflicts
cannot exist in a community.
10.
Self-sufficiency: A community
cannot be self- sufficient because of its limited scope, nature and it is more or less impossible in our modern omplex society.
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1.
Population is of course important but here the population is conditioned by a feeling of oneness. Thus conscious
relations are more important than the mere population for a society.
2.
By nature and character society is abstract and we can only feel about
society.
3.
Society is arealess and shapeless and for a society area is no consideration.
That perhaps is the reason that the people living in distant areas and
working in different fields can form society.
4.
A society has heterogeneity and because of its wide scope and field can
embrace people having different conflicts.
5.
A society is wet of social relationships which is the very basis of a good
society.
6.
The society has much wider scope as compared with
the community. In a
community there cannot be societies but in a society there can be many
communities.
7.
On the other hand in a developed society common objectives are more extensive
and closely coordinated.
8.
In a society the people have wider scope to develop themselves and giving
expression to their personality. In fact society is essential for human
personality.
9.
In a society likeness and conflict can exist side by side and in fact the
scope of society is so vast that there is every possibility of adjustment. In
the words of Maclver, "In society each member seeks something. This is
fundamentally the case however, the exploitative or parasitical or unjust the
social system may be".
10.
It is possible for a society to become self-sufficient. In fact every society tries to throw bonds of
dependency to the extent possible.
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